United Nations [October 2014]
This edition of the Foreign Policy Centre’s Iran Human Rights Review (IHRR) focuses on the relationship between Iran and the United Nations. Academic and civil society experts put forward a range of different perspectives with a particular focus on how the country interacts with UN human rights mechanisms and its commitments under international law. The review looks at issues including the lack of access to Iran for UN Special Rapporteurs, the country’s approach to the Universal Periodic Review process, the problems facing the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime mission and the Islamic Republic Government’s approach to questions of international law and practice in the context of the wider Iranian human rights tradition.
ForewordIntroductionThe question that my interrogator askedIran: Human rights and cultural wrongsIranian minority rights: A case study of the UN human rights machineryIran and human rights organs of the United NationsA rising tide lifts all boats: Human rights in Iran, cooperating for changeThe Iran Tribunal: Establishing an alternative history of human rights abusesEquality for women means progress for allIran: The use of the death penalty for drug-related offences as a tool of political controlHuman rights in Iran and at the United Nations Resources